Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fed583b064a16d5b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-08-13 22:55:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3f980f7e1084309e968d29924ba72d30 SHA-1: 37e1ae5b85d6577df2caa0a3d012e4ed7d92d89a SHA-256: fed583b064a16d5b6f9cb4d10ef413602467109f411dacb30c6de9db5daedafe
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The document body, though corrupted, contains text suggesting a lure related to legal forms. The primary malicious link identified is ttraff.com, which likely leads to further malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of many Shopify links suggests an attempt to blend in with benign content while directing users to malicious infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=single%20status%20affidavit%20form%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.brianschoettler.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738969/7e7c77b6e7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.orrvillefireinthesky.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383737/8942151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.samsaraholidayhouse.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857756/biwenijuwesuzi-kobonaredapir-gexodetopama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.davaocityproperties.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775992/4410873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2812/7654/files/xiguxufiguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/boruxunijutaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4977/0389/files/analog_to_digital_converter_block_diagram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7872/8345/files/gatimeromepevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4889/3606/files/29029191486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2729/1544/files/36933608159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7689/5388/files/bomaputelidibaxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4145/5256/files/dr_nun_amen_ra_diet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1763/3945/files/27118340911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0911/3253/files/beginning_sounds_cut_and_paste.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000064c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64C3 5524 bytes
SHA-256: a191bc71e071281f5ea5200e21eca52ac28ded2460c4763812d8753b7cf0cdee
font_01_sfnt_off0000777f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x777F 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 31760598efcbfaefa4560953f8fd20b4e6ffdd8db6e35b2b6c7940e95472c4a5